Each year, “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” screens films that draw upon Italy’s rich cinematic heritage and that provide a snapshot of contemporary Italian life. A collaboration of The Film Society of Lincoln Center and Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Open Roads 2017 will screen at New York City’s Walter Reade Theater beginning June 1. Italophiles will want to catch these North American and New York premieres at the festival; at this writing, only one of the 14 features has a U.S. distributor.

Over half of the films screening this year are David di Donatello winners, Italy’s top film prizes. (The award is named for the bronze, nude statue of David by the Renaissance artist Donatello, a replica of which is given to the winners.) The lineup is emblematic of the subjects that have preoccupied Italian filmmakers for decades, including “la famiglia” (the family), especially that of the role of women and girls; romance and marriage; the Roman Catholic Church’s influence on Italian society; and the travails of working and middle-class Italians most affected by corruption and economic downturns.